lou1661 said:
I had not ever thought about rep points untill this thread came up and having read mine i now find that i have a negative point left on 13/5/06 for a light hearted post on 27/2/06 in the post 101 top tips i said,
If you have seen Mr Mears do it on telly and it looks easy you had better hope you dont need to do it in a hurry.
a nice innocuous post so i thought, my negative rep says
ray Mears,does that name mean everything.
I can completly understand that if people are giving out false or dangerous information, breaking forum rules or activley promoting illegal activities then negative points should be given.
But if the adult, open, helpful people that use this forum feel the need to resort to playground name calling whilst hiding behind anonymity perhaps this system needs a change, perhaps rep points could only be given by mods after a post and explanation is sent by the person wishing to post rep points. At least this way some of the stupid small minded people who obviously lurk in here with chips on there shoulders you would need a chain saw to get through would not be able to to leave pointless feedback for no reason.
cheers
louis
I know it's irritating Louis, this is the reason for making it all open, that does seem like a daft reason to neg rep you, I'd have to agree with your statement, he was showing me something once and it took him 30 seconds and me about an hour!
The rep system is something for everyone to use, hopefully they will be a bit more responsible with it now that there's no hiding away. I'm not going to put even more on the Mods, they do loads as it is, this is for the members to get their heads around.
I can completly understand that if people are giving out false or dangerous information, breaking forum rules or activley promoting illegal activities then negative points should be given.
This is dead right and the positive points should be given if someone posts something useful, they have good advice and they have contributed to the forum, peoples lives etc.
I would suggest for everyone that the rep point thing start anew from today, ignore all the previous stuff and don't get wound up because people have been daft.